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by ecshafer 500 days ago
A Chinese company announcing this on Spring Festival eve, that is very surprising. The deep seek announcement must have put a fire under them. I am surprised anything is being done right now in these Chinese tech companies.
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Well, DeepSeek engineers are (desperately) fire-fighting as they don't have nearly as much capacity as needed. Competitors either already rushed release or decided to do an hush release of whatever they had in the pipeline. Sounds like everyone is working L
It's like when Gemini topped Chatbot Arena Leaderboard, and OpenAI released a model next day.
is gemini really better than e.g. claude 3.5?
Mostly, but not for coding. Also the arena is pretty much a vibes benchmark. Don't take it too seriously. Livebench is a better indicator
Gemini is actually pretty useless because of its rate limits.